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2328Towards a Phenomenology of Repression: A Husserlian Reply to the Freudian ChallengeStockholm University Press. 2010.This is the first book-length philosophical study of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. The book investigates the possibility for Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology to clarify Freud’s concept of the unconscious with a focus on the theory of repression as its centre. Repression is the unconscious activity of pushing something away from consciousness, while making sure that it remains active as something foreign within us. How this is possible is the …Read more
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1Association in Husserl and Freud – Passivity and the UnconsciousIn Luiz-Carlos Pereira Marcia Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), Time and Form, Puc University Press. 2013.
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572The Temporality of Sexual Life in Husserl and FreudPhenomenology of Eros. 2012.In this text I would like to show two things. Firstly, that the so-called “timelessness” of the Freudian unconscious can be elucidated through an interpretation of the concept of Nachträglichkeit, and showing thereby that there is indeed a temporality specific to the workings of the unconscious. Freud’s analysis of early psychic trauma related to sexual phenomena pointed to a serious complication for all believers in the immediate transparency of consciousness. For the “wound” itself was constit…Read more
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1Disavowal, Ignorance and the Colonial Difference: Rethinking Phenomenology From the StartIn Maria Gyemant & Délia Popa (eds.), Approches Phénoménologiques de L'Inconscient, Georg Olms Verlag. 2015.
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The World Beyond Europe as Spirit: Transcendental Prejudice and Phenomenology [In Japanese]Logos Kai Fainomenon (Tokyo, 2015) 30 31-47. 2014.
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20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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